Jamie

If I had to guess, they're probably not doing it just because they want to. It's entirely possible they got a threat letter from one or more publications about the topic and are doing it to avoid litigation. Or they're afraid that they could face litigation if they don't take action.

We shouldn't assume ill intent unless there's something to substantiate it.

Car dealerships shaking and crying

Ah yes, the old parent company with a sole employee and it's address is a basement in a country where the laws they want to avoid don't apply.

I host my own searx instance and use that to search, it supports all of DDG's bangs by default if you begin a query with a double bang !!

The RIAA's lawyers will be there to take that bird for everything it has.

If he could get in league with Bobby Kotick and they just collectively go screw up a different market somewhere else, that'd be nice.

There have been examples that are effectively primitive shitposts found carved into walls in Pompeii. People never really change.

This is a very well written take. Have my upvote.

And adding 0.081% to the population every year are stealing all the good jobs uh... checks notes, working in construction and on ranches where actual citizens usually don't want to work anyway.

I worked in a restaurant and someone called the health department on us. He stepped in the walk-in for about 2 minutes, looked at the make line, said "Nothing seems rotten to me" and left.

It stemmed from a lady claiming she got food poisoning from our food, but the timing was pretty fast, and half the ingredients were fully cooked upon delivery stuff anyway that just got heated up in the oven. So honestly, we figured she probably got it from something else and the inspector probably thought the same thing.

Nah, they had some BS going on in DOS I'm pretty sure, too.

And harasses you ceaselessly to use it, advertises itself if you look up Chrome in it, gets reset back to default on updates for a bunch of file types.

Sincerely, a Firefox user.